Discovered 1993 Mar. 19 at the European Southern Observatory in the course of the Uppsala-ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets.

Västerhejde is a parish on the west coast of Gotland. Its church, originating from the thirteenth century, is the only one on Gotland with a church tower of a type normally found only in the southern provinces of Sweden.

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